Thursday, January 30, 2014

I am sad to report that I am sick (upper respiratory infection according to the doctor), and my mind seems affected in now thinking up all sort of bizarre ideas, including fantastic creatures. This prompts today’s weird thing: “Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus”. This is a well-done hoax, with links to other hoaxed animals as well. Enjoy and share the weirdness.

I have way too many links open in Safari, and in the process of reducing them, I am going to post two weird things.

The first weird thing hearkens back to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Outrageous Okona”. In this episode, Data starts to tell Guinan a joke starting with “A monk, a clone, and a Ferengi decide to go bowling together—”, but he never finishes it due to being paged and having to leave. “Finish Data's Joke” provides a number of suggestions of what the rest of the joke is, some of which are actually funny. (Now if only someone would give me the start of the joke about the clown and the Ferengi in the gorilla suit…)

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

In the process of getting rid of open tabs in Safari, I bring you today’s weird thing: King James Programming, which describes itself as “Posts generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.” The result is the periodic posting of such bizarrely silly things as “And Satan stood up against them in the table used by the programs external to the enclosing procedure” and “Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means unique to computer programming.” Your humble blogger has no idea what the point of this is beyond silliness. Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Monday, December 9, 2013

It has been way too long since I last posted on this blog (or my other one). I have been busy with other things, and I expect to be busy a lot for a while. Nevertheless, I ran across something totally weird I feel merits being shared: “Middle Earth climate”. Someone (using the pseudonym of “Radagast the Brown”) was actually goofy enough to model the climate on Arda, the fictional world of the past of J. R. R. Tolkien. Enjoy and share the weirdness with the hobbit you love.